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The Southerner

The picture that never lets go of your heart!

1945 · 1h 32m · APPROVED Drama
Directed by Jean Renoir

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Sam Tucker, a cotton picker, in search of a better future for his family, decides to grow his own cotton crop. In the first year, the Tuckers battle disease, a flood, and a jealous neighbor. Can they make it as farmers?

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91%
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Fresh

Renoir's most successful American film, loose, free-flowing, honest.

Derek Adams, Time Out
Fresh

A rich, unusual and sensitive delineation of a segment of the American scene well worth filming and seeing.

Bosley Crowther, New York Times
Fresh

Jean Renoir's 1945 examination of dirt farmers in the American south is probably his finest Hollywood film, which is to say a masterpiece.

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Rotten

It may be trenchant realism, but these are times when there is a greater need. Escapism is the word.

Variety

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